I have worked closely with English Heritage at Portchester castle for a number of years now, advising on the reinterpretation of the keep, particularly the prisoner-of-war theatre that was there 1810-1814, and leading schools workshops on the prisoners' acting styles. The dress rehearsal was filmed and can be seen here and the performance has been shortlisted in the Events category of the 2019 Association of Heritage Interpretation awards. In 2016-17 I had AHRC follow-on funding for a project on S taging Napoleonic Theatre which involved working with the Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond, North Yorkshire to put on a performance of Pixerécourt's La Forteresse du Danube and with English Heritage at Portchester Castle to stage a melodrama the Napoleonic prisoners wrote while incarcerated there: Roseliska ou amour, haine et vengeance. This project involved a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on linking close textual readings to larger cultural, social and political issues. I am currently preparing a monograph on theatre during Napoleon's One Hundred Days which is the culmination of an AHRC-funded project on French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era which I ran between 20. The ways in which cultural forms inflect the public sphere and shape political legitimacy are central to my work and can be seen in both my 2012 monograph Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution and the 2018 co-edited volume with Mark Philp Napoleon’s One Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy (Palgrave). My research focuses on extending our understanding of French culture 1750-1815 by examining the traditions, themes, aesthetics and politics of novels, prints, theatrical texts, scores and performances of the time. French Revolutionary Prints as Spectacle.Freedom and Revolution: Being Human Festival 2020.Coronavirus updates for SMLC staff (Restricted permissions).Staff Intranet (Restricted permissions).Undergraduates (Restricted permissions).Current Students (Restricted permissions).